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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I was thinking...
History could have been a lot different. What if... Google Books were made available for all epub readers? Right now, you cannot read Google Books on your Kobo for instance. But what if you could have? Just like you can connect to the Kobo store, you could connect to the Google Books store?
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Um, you do know that you can download Google Books purchases for Adobe Digital Editions and sideload to any ADE-compatible EPUB ereader, right? And despite that advantage, Amazon is still in a superior position to Kobo, worldwide.
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I do know that the Kindle here is a lot less interesting to people than the Kobo's (and other epub readers), simply because the selection of Kindle books is not even close to the selection of epubs (and even that is only a fraction of the selection of paper books...).
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I assume "here" is somewhere where a non-English language predominates... such places typically have a lower ebook penetration on general principle, and entrenched interests which
do produce ebooks are AFAIK mostly selling through their own EPUB platforms, not through Amazon
or Kobo.